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SWAN'S WAY - BY HENRI RACZYMOW - 2002 - HARDCOVER - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- “Minor wear to edge of dust jacket, otherwise in good condition”
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9780810119253
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810119250
ISBN-13
9780810119253
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2323615
Product Key Features
Book Title
Swan's Way
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
European / French, General
Genre
Literary Criticism
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-011407
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A splendid work of art . . . deftly touches on the very essence of In Search of Lost Time." -- Le Nouvel Observateur, "A splendid work of art . . . deftly touches on the very essence ofIn Search of Lost Time."--Le Nouvel Observateur
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Table Of Content
1. First Impressions 2. Gestures 3. A Clubman 4. Rue Rabelais 5. Swann's Name 6. Sadism, Death 7. S/Z 8. Swan: To the Letter 9. Tissot, Painter 10. Madame Proust 11. Swan Song 12. The Frame and its Canvas 13. The Hares of the Judengasse in Frankfurt am Main 14. A Very Rarefied Elite 15. Music 16. Revelry 17. The Affair 18. A Grand Story 19. An Exercise in Futility 20. Seated, For Days at a Time 21. Haas in Love 22. Death Has Overtaken . . . Coda
Synopsis
Rarely has anyone taken Swan's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional identity of the elegant "swan" of Proust's In Search of Lost Time becomes, through a series of turns and twists, an ingenious investigation of the character's real-life counterpart, Charles Haas. Part novel, part essay, part literary sleuthing, Swan's Way is a critical tour de force. Through an inspired reading of Proust's text, Henri Raczymow gradually unravels the multiple contradictions of Charles Swann's personality, brought into focus by the fault lines in Proust's narrative method. The author traces Swann's evolution and the multiple ways in which his Jewish identity keeps peeping through the veneer of respectability of this sophisticated dandy. Through a parallel inquiry into the history of the Jockey Club--to which Haas, a Jew, was, like Swann, exceptionally admitted--and the transformation of the German-Jewish Haas into the fashionable British Swann, Swan's Way evolves into an examination of the question of personal identity and posthumous survival. Haas's Jewish identity is the invisible thread that guides Raczymow through the maze of Proust's work, which serves as a backdrop against which fin de si cle French society enacts the ugly drama of anti-Semitism. Blurring the boundaries between life and fiction, Swan's Way leads the reader ever deeper into the unresolved question of literary and personal character., An inspired meditation on Proust's masterpiece that engages readers and explores the mysteries of literary and personal identity, Rarely has anyone taken Swan's Way down a stranger path, and never with such intriguing results. What begins as a meditation on the fictional identity of the elegant "swan" of Proust's In Search of Lost Time becomes, through a series of turns and twists, an ingenious investigation of the character's real-life counterpart, Charles Haas. Part novel, part essay, part literary sleuthing, Swan's Way is a critical tour de force. Through an inspired reading of Proust's text, Henri Raczymow gradually unravels the multiple contradictions of Charles Swann's personality, brought into focus by the fault lines in Proust's narrative method. The author traces Swann's evolution and the multiple ways in which his Jewish identity keeps peeping through the veneer of respectability of this sophisticated dandy. Through a parallel inquiry into the history of the Jockey Club--to which Haas, a Jew, was, like Swann, exceptionally admitted--and the transformation of the German-Jewish Haas into the fashionable British Swann, Swan's Way evolves into an examination of the question of personal identity and posthumous survival. Haas's Jewish identity is the invisible thread that guides Raczymow through the maze of Proust's work, which serves as a backdrop against which fin de siècle French society enacts the ugly drama of anti-Semitism. Blurring the boundaries between life and fiction, Swan's Way leads the reader ever deeper into the unresolved question of literary and personal character.
LC Classification Number
PQ2631.R63A9837 2002
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